Dov Forman

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Born (2003-12-06) 6 December 2003 (age 20)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipEngland
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Dov Forman is an international best-selling author and a social media creator, living in London.

Personal life

Forman is a religious Jew of Ashkenazi descent. He is the youngest of three children and currently lives in northwest London. Forman is one of 35 great grandchildren of Holocaust survivor, Lily Ebert.[1]

Activism

At the age of sixteen, during the Covid pandemic, amid the rise of Antisemitism in the world, Forman became determined to raise awareness of the Holocaust and anti-Jewish racism . Forman took to Twitter to share his great grandmother's story of surviving the Holocaust and quickly went viral, with Forman's Tweets reaching over 60 million Twitter users in 2020 and 2021.[2]

Forman is an advocate for finding new, creative and engaging ways to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust. Forman has worked with LADbible|the LADbible Group and Twitch.Tv to bring Holocaust survivors to their platforms, for the first time. Forman has given talks about 'social media and Holocaust commemoration' at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.[3][4] In November 2020, Forman spoke at the UK Parliament in favour of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.[5] Forman has also given interviews to more than 150 news outlets and spoken on international radio and television, in over 30 countries.

In February 2021, Forman set up a TikTok account to raise awareness about the Holocaust, and the consequences of hate, among people his own age.[6] Forman posts videos together with his great grandmother, answering questions about the Holocaust and Judaism. In June 2021, the pair reached a staggering one million followers on the video-sharing app.[7]

Dov co-authored The Sunday Times Best-Seller Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live which includes a foreword by Prince Charles.[8][9] Lily's Promise was published by Pan Macmillan in the UK on 2 September 2021 and HarperCollins has scheduled US publication on 10 May 2022.[10][11] Lily's Promise is a three-time Sunday Times Best-Seller and was the Waterstones and Daily Mail UK's best history book of 2021. Lily's Promise is published in more than 10 languages, including - but not limited to - German, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Chinese and French.[12]

In his deeply personal foreword to Lily's Promise, His Royal Highness Prince Charles - the heir to the throne - praised the book and paid tribute to Dov for his “engaging and effective use of social media” in sharing his great grandmother's story. He said Forman has “shown himself more than capable of carrying forward” the task of remembrance; “Dov has demonstrated a determination to share his great grandmother’s story with a global audience.”.[13]

Forman has worked on educational projects with various departments of the UK Government (including the Home Office, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Foreign Office, the Department for Education and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities).[14][15][16][17]

In November 2021, Forman - together with the Jewish News - set up a private meeting and a tour of Kinloss synagogue with former Yorkshire cricket club player, Azeem Rafiq. Rafiq, who gave a testimony in parliament earlier that month about anti-Muslim prejudice at his cricket club, was later revealed to have used hateful language towards Jews on social media in 2011. Forman set up this meeting as part of Rafiq's reconciliation with the Jewish community.[18]

Award

In November 2021, Forman received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, in recognition of exceptional services to Holocaust education.[19][20]

In March 2022, Forman - alongside his great grandmother Ebert - is due to be presented with the Jewish Care community award by Andrew Neil at the Jewish Care annual community lunch, hosted by the Topland Group.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Rosa, Joanne (27 January 2022). "Auschwitz survivor and great-grandson teach TikTok about realities of Holocaust "She's a fighter," Dov Forman said of his great-grandmother, Lily Ebert". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  2. ↑ FORMAN, Dov (27 August 2021). "The forgotten gift that led a Holocaust survivor to the US soldier who helped her 76 years ago When Lily Ebert, 97, was liberated from a work camp, a US soldier wrote a message of hope on a banknote; it restored her faith in humanity". The Telegraph. The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Oxford, University. "THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM AND LITERATURE: Social Media and Holocaust Commemoration: In Conversation with Dov Forman". University of Oxford - Oxford talks. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Carr, Dr Jilly. "Lily's Promise: An interview with Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and her great-grandson Dov Forman". University of Oxford; Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Forman, Dov. "Dov Forman speech in favour of the proposed UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre". Westminster.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Swerling, Hannah (3 October 2021). "Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, 97, and her great-grandson on how she became a TikTok star The Auschwitz survivor and Dov Forman discuss family, anti-semitism and the power of sharing her story online". The Sunday Times Magazine - Relative Values. The Times and Sunday Times. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Butterworth, Benjamin (27 January 2022). "The Holocaust survivor sharing her amazing story on TikTok, with help from her great-grandson". IPaper. INews. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "Macmillan 02 September 2021 9781529073409 320 pages Share this book with your friends and family Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert Dov Forman". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Mendel, Jack (28 July 2021). "Prince Charles to write foreword for book by Shoah survivor & her great-grandson Heir to the throne will introduce 'Lily's Promise' by 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert and her 17-year-old great-grandson Dov Forman". Jewish News UK. Jewish News. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Edwards, Jonathan (1 February 2022). "A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor built a massive TikTok following to combat deniers: 'It happened'". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  11. ↑ "Lily's Promise Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations". HarperCollins. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  12. ↑ Forman, Dov. "Dov Forman LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  13. ↑ HRH The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles (27 August 2021). "Foreword, Lily's Promise". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "Home Secretary Priti Patel commemorated #HMD2022 by hearing from Lily Ebert and her grandson @DovForman about her experiences during the Holocaust". The Jewish Chronicle. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  15. ↑ Miller, Sabrina (27 January 2022). "Liz Truss commits to fighting antisemitism during Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony Foreign Secretary joined by Israel's ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely, Holocaust survivors, educators and Jewish leaders". Jewish News UK. Jewish News. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  16. ↑ "Holocaust-survivor Lily Ebert shares her experience alongside great-grandson @DovForman and reminds us why we must not let history repeat itself". Twitter - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. UK Government; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  17. ↑ "Lily Ebert and her great-grandson Dov Forman are teaching children the importance of tolerance, using social media to spread a message of hope". Twitter - Department for Education. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  18. ↑ Mendel, Jack (26 November 2021). "The powerful moment Azeem Rafiq understood where antisemitism leads". Jewish News UK. Jewish News. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  19. ↑ Mendel, Jack (1 December 2021). "Prime Minister honours teen who co-wrote great-grandmother's Auschwitz memoir 'This is the signal for me and Lily to keep going, and to spread Lily's messages and Holocaust testimony even further', said Dov Forman, 17". Jewish News UK. Jewish News. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  20. ↑ "Lily's Promise 1800. Dov Forman Dov Forman, aged 17, from London, is the great-grandson of Auschwitz survivor, Lily Ebert, who co-authored her written testimony of the Holocaust and has reached millions of young people on social media, educating them about the horrors of the Holocaust". Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street. Points of Light. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  21. ↑ Jewish, Care. "TOPLAND GROUP BUSINESS LUNCH 2022". Jewish Care. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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